One day in 2002, on the bustling streets of Shanghai, an unkempt and ragged homeless man sat on the floor.
None of the passers-by in a hurry paid any attention to the filthy man. Facing the camera of strangers, the homeless man began to speak "Zuo Chuan" and "Shangshu" in Mandarin.
He talked about the customs and customs of various places, said historical allusions, and warned people: "There are many who start well, and few who end well." "Who is this homeless man, how can he be well-versed in the past and the present, but embark on the road of wandering?
The homeless man's name is Shen Wei. Note: This Shen Wei is not the Professor Shen Wei, they are just the same name, please don't confuse the girls who love "Soul Town".
This Shen Wei was actually a person with a family and a good job at first, and he was a civil servant in a unit in Shanghai. Half of the reason why I became a homeless person is because of a family without love.
Shen Wei liked to read and love literature since he was a child, but his father often angered his son because he was not on good terms with his grandmother. In order to read more, he did not hesitate to pick up garbage, waste paper, and orange peels to sell to earn money to buy books to read.
In 1986, Shen Wei, who went to work in the Audit Bureau, saw that it was a pity for other people's discarded cartons, so he picked them up for his own use. Such an abnormal behavior made his leaders and colleagues misunderstand that he was abnormal.
Back at home, my grandmother and father didn't have any empathy, and they also thought that Shen Wei had a problem ......with his brain
In 1995, after getting angry with my family, I rented a house outside. The old house was about to be demolished, and I thought that I would soon have my own house, but as a result, the old house was not demolished until 6 years later. ”
After the house was demolished, Shen Wei lived under the eaves of a neighbor's house until the Spring Festival of 2002. Because he was complained by a neighbor, he was kicked out twice. Shen Wei also cut off contact with his family, and officially began his wandering career.
Shen Wei wandered between Gaoke West Road and Pusan Road, searching for plastic bottles, cardboard boxes and food in the garbage heaps. Shen Wei eats very frugally, most of them only eat vegetarian food, and meat is brought to stray kittens and puppies to fill their stomachs.
In the evening, Shen Wei would go back to Pusan Road and go to the newspaper stand to read the day's newspapers. When it rains, he sleeps under the roof of a nursing home.
When someone took pity on him, he gave him a few dollars to spend, but he never wanted it. Although Shen Wei's unit let him leave his job, he still has a salary of 2,000 yuan per month.
He said it was enough to spend. I just feel that some things can still be used, and I shouldn't waste things, and it's a pity to lose them, so I keep picking them up for my own use.
After wandering outside for 26 years, others thought Shen Wei was very bitter, but he was willing to do it. Shen Wei also stored Gandhi's ** in his mobile phone, and he insisted on living an ascetic life, saying: "People can't waste things unscrupulously. ”
26 In the past, Shen Wei never bought a grain of rice, nor did he buy a single piece of clothing, no matter where he went, he just did two things: buy books and pick up things.
In March 2019, a netizen who loves literature posted Shen Wei's talk about "Zuo Chuan" and other Chinese studies on the Internet. In this **, the click-through rate soared, and Shen Wei became an Internet celebrity "wandering master".
A homeless person at the bottom with a deep cultural accumulation and his own dreams and beliefs can become an Internet celebrity in a short period of time, which more or less reflects the reverence for people's traditional culture.
Soon, Shen Wei was encouraged by fans to go live in the live broadcast room. Originally, he flatly refused because he was a literati and did not want to be restrained.
Later, unable to stand the persuasion of others, he could buy a house and realize his dream of putting books and painting in one room, Shen Wei finally walked into the live broadcast room.
Unexpectedly, when Shen Wei's popularity exploded, many people began to gain popularity. With Shen Wei's live broadcast room as the center, the big and small anchors took turns to fight, and even the stalls selling fruits came to shoot ** and rub the traffic.
It is said that there were brothers who were live streaming next to them at that time, and they took more than 10,000 yuan in live broadcast rewards on the same day!
Shen Wei was red and out of control. I like him and say that he is a disseminator of Chinese classics and an admirable teacher; I don't like it: "Shen Wei is putting on a show, it's a script." ”
On May 22, 2020, he already has tens of millions of fans, and there are more and more "big brothers" in Shen Wei's live broadcast room, and his shots are becoming more and more arrogant.
Later, fans with funds funded Shen Wei to go to the local live broadcast, and food, clothing, housing and transportation were all covered. In just half a year, Shen Wei traveled almost all over the country.
Shen Wei's popularity attracted the suspicion and abuse of many people, thinking that he was deliberately a homeless man and then returned to normal life, purely for showmanship. For a while, there was a crusade.
This was something Shen Wei did not expect, and he announced that he would stop broadcasting indefinitely. He no longer covets the prosperity of the market, he just wants to calmly pick up rags, read books, and paint.
stopped the live broadcast, thinking that I could return to normal life. Unexpectedly, many fans came to me under various names. They asked Shen Wei for help under various pretexts, and the kind-hearted Shen Wei did not refuse.
In this way, 12,000 and 35,000 lands have borrowed the millions of income earned in the live broadcast room one after another. After borrowing the money, Shen Wei realized that he couldn't do live broadcasts in the future, where should he go in the second half of his life?
The homeless can't do it, don't you have to start a new life. In an interview in 2022, Shen Wei also talked about borrowing money and quitting the network.
Shen Wei hopes that those who borrowed money will return it, and if anyone really doesn't pay back the money in the end, he will go through the judicial process: "I don't dare to say that I have never been cheated, but I will take the legal way." ”
Originally, Shen Wei did the live broadcast, just to do something for people who love literature and history. made a modest contribution to the promotion of traditional Chinese culture, but I didn't expect it to end so unbearably.
In the final analysis, Shen Wei didn't understand, it was that the world was changing too fast. In today's materialistic and impetuous world, a man like him loves literature and is maverick; There are too few people who know the world and are not sophisticated! You tell me?
Author: He Wen.
Editor: Zhen Zhen.